People play the Nintendo video game “Mario Odyssey” during the Paris Games Week in November. The World Health Organization will soon list gaming disorder as a health condition. Kamil ZihniogluThe Associated Press

People play the Nintendo video game “Mario Odyssey” during the Paris Games Week in November. The World Health Organization will soon list gaming disorder as a health condition. Kamil ZihniogluThe Associated Press

According to WHO’s International Classification of Diseases-11 Beta Draft, which was updated Monday, a gaming disorder “is characterized by a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behavior (‘digital gaming’ or ‘video-gaming’), which may be online (i.e., over the internet) or offline.”